“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” ~James Russell Lowell

“Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.” ~anon.

“Experience is an unorthodox teacher: it gives you the test before teaching the lesson.” ~unknown

“Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even profit, like a gold rush or invading a country; … but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.” ~Katherine Anne Porter

“I measure myself day after day—to find out if I have grown, not to know my size.” ~Eduardo Chillida

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.” ~Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.” ~Oscar Wilde

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” ~Emerson

“If you have made mistakes … there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~Mary Pickford

“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.” ~Clarence Day

“I have come to realize that good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is unfortunately a result of bad judgment.” ~Robert Kennedy

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” ~Douglas Adams

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” ~John Locke

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” ~Mark Twain

“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” ~F. P. Jones

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” ~James Joyce



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